Sand Springs Man Sentenced to Five Months Home Detention, $30,000 Restitution for Theft of Government Property

U.S. Attorney’s Office
June 25, 2014

Eastern District of Oklahoma(918) 684-5100

MUSKOGEE, OK—The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that DAVID ALLEN ROBERTS, age 32, of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, was sentenced to five years of probation with 5 months of home detention for THEFT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section(s) 641. ROBERTS was also ordered to pay $30,727.65 in restitution.

Charges arose from an investigation by the Broken Arrow Police Department, the Naval Criminal Investigation Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The defendant was indicted in November, 2013 and pled guilty in December, 2013.

The Indictment alleged that during the period of in or about February 2013 to on or about October 15, 2013, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the defendant did willfully and knowingly embezzle, steal, purloin, and convert to his own use and the use of another, things of value of the United States having a value of more than $1000.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, presided over the hearing.

Assistant United States Attorney Christopher Wilson represented the United States.